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Benedict Abbot of Farfa (802?-812?). Date of death is normally fixed at 815 (see also Costambeys, Power, p. 162), probably considering the first known year of the abbacy of Benedict's successor, Ingoald. Il Regesto di Farfa, p. 143, says Benedict was the eleventh abbot of the monastery, ruling for 10 years, 5 months and 3 days, and that he died 3 days before the Ides of August ("Undecimus denique huic monasterio pater vir venerabilis Benedictus praefuit annos .X. et .V. menses, diesque .III. Obiit in pace .III. Idus Augusti"). Considering that the previous abbot, Mauroald, is still alive in August 801 (see FAR 2:170), and that on 13th of June 803 Benedict, acting in the name and on behalf of the monastery, receives from Charlemagne a diploma confirming to Farfa all the possessions, his abbacy likely starts from 7 March 802.
Farfa, S Mary None
Robert Granter in FAR 2:186. Despite the different spelling of name given by the later copyst, this "Rodopertus", as argued by editor himself, should be most probably identified with the "Rodoricus" acting as donor in the following document of the Regesto di Farfa (FAR 2:187): giving the monastery the other half of a wood and of the church of S Stephen, the author, again qualified as son of a Alaric, clearly recalls his previous donation made "iam antea per scriptum".